Report Summary
This report provides members of the Policing Performance Committee with an overview of an overview of information relating to polling conducted in January 2025 and future plans relating to polling.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 19 March 2025
Date : 19 March 2025
Location : online
Future Plans Relating to Polling
This short paper (Appendix 2) outlines some of key considerations that Authority staff will be pursuing as part of informing the procurement exercise to supply future public polling to the Authority. Members of the Committee are invited to reflect on the proposals.
The key considerations and proposals follow from a review of polling activity undertaken between 2022-2025 via the Diffley Partnership and the ScotPulse survey, where more than 15,000 people have responded to surveys over the course of six sweeps of polling.
The review by Authority staff explored:
The relative value of the core questions on confidence, trust and police performance;
The frequency of polling and, linked to this, its responsiveness to public interest issues and topics;
The pace at which the pooled sample builds up to a sufficiently large size to permit ‘deeper dives’ into sub-sections of the population;
Opportunities for wider engagement across the policing system to identify topical interest areas for questions; and
How the Authority disseminates polling data and insights.
The short paper in Appendix 2 sets out Authority staff’s intended direction of travel with respect to each of these considerations.
